Jeremy Allen White is getting ready for Thanksgiving. He’ll spend it at a gathering of about 30 people at a friend’s place in Los Angeles. His contribution will be a green bean casserole, a sweet potato side and a salad.

He admits the pressure to cook well has gained a lot of steam since becoming a household name for his award-winning work as Carmy on “ The Bear .”

“There was Thanksgiving, after the first season, where I cooked for everybody,” he tells me. “There was Christmas when I cooked for about 30 before shooting the first season. That was after culinary school and the one-on-one training and in and out of kitchens. Not that it was bad, but everybody was like, ‘OK, yeah, it’s real.’ Yeah, there are definitely eyes on me.”

But what happens when someone asks White what he thinks

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